A whale shark was filmed vacuuming up sand from the ocean floor, leaving viewers completely confused. This strange behavior is usually linked to feeding, as the shark may be sucking up tiny organisms ...

The boat turned out to be a 35-foot-long fin-back whale, freshly dead, leaking fluids for hundreds of yards. This slick had attracted an apex predator, its presence announced by 4-foot-wide chomp ...

A North Atlantic Right Whale, previously found entangled in a rope off of south Georgia, has been discovered dead off the ...

If the sound of far-flung escapes and close encounters with a humpback whale floats your boat, read on for some of the ...

Bohol reopened one of its most visited sandbar islands, betting that tighter environmental rules can revive tourism income ...

While the overall risk of a shark attack remains low, experts say warmer waters, various weather events, shifting prey and busier coastlines can increase the risk ...

THE prehistoric “super carnivore” megalodon was bigger than previously thought, growing to a whopping 80ft and weighing 94 ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

The Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) has been at it again, with ROV SuBastian diving along the coast of Argentina and bringing us back some incredible research and images of life along the ...

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Once driven to the brink of extinction by commercial whaling, southern right whales slowly returned to Australian coastlines ...

Meet the researchers using the tiny crustaceans to monitor endangered whales and climate change in the Gulf of Maine.